The official Newsletter of ASEACCU – The Association of Southeast and East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities
Aseaccu Newsletter
July 2022
The Newsletter is published two times a year (Summer and Winter) by the Association of Southeast and East Asian Catholic College and Universities.
Editorial
Symphony of Voices
As Pope Benedict XVI recalls, “communication has the power to create bridges, foster encounter, and inclusion, thus enriching society. (…) Words can build bridges between people, families, social groups”.
The Association of Southeast and East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities (ASEACCU) is creating links and building bridges between catholic universities, professors, students, and audiences, to reach the other side, establishing links between communities and spreading “our” vision.
When we build our messages, we are trying to create empathy with the Other, and selecting words, or silences, to be decoded.
From the elements received from multi-cultures, we build credibility, trust, value, and, hopefully, contribute to the growth of the human being and to the improvement of the individual.
In relation to Other, in relation to the World, in the multiple types of relations, the attitude of Being needs to contain positive aspects, revisiting communication and new ways to build links and bridges.
In this newsletter that is now calling from Macao (a bridge per excellence), we will listen to Professor Isabel Capeloa Gil, the President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) and Rector of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), guiding us through the bridges of the solutions for the main issues of our times: “as knowledge centers, universities are at the forefront of the global health”, remaining us that “the University as an in-person community of scholars and students remains the privileged model for quality higher education entrepreneurial approaches”.
At this issue, we will travel to the Philippines, to the Saint Scholastiva’s College, an institution that started to build bridges in 1906, touching lives and serving society with a heart, “strong stand for peace, justice, and women empowerment.”
Inside there are people, discussions on being a teenager and an entrepreneur at the same time, building what they call the new teenpreneurs. There are interviews, competitions, and prizes. We visited performers in the innovative Psychometrician Licensure area and looked at the work done at the Holy Angel University and their honorary doctorates. We understand that the St. Paul University Dumaguete is responding to the invitation of Pope Francis to become part of the communities and to make an impact to hear the cry of the poor and of the earth.
We would like to congratulate University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi (UST-Legazpi) that hailed 96 new lawyers in the 2020-2021 bar examinations. On the same note, De La Salle Lipa ranked third nationwide producing 49 new lawyers and San Beda University ranked 7th among the top-performing medical schools in the Philippines.
We are glad to visit the Catholic University of Korea and know that they shared the warmth. The Assumption University of Thailand aimed to support the farmers’ community to produce high-quality organic fertilizers. Glad to know that in Cambodia, the Saint Paul Institute received the environmental prize of excellence and in Taiwan, the Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages cultivates leadership skills, international perspectives, and new strategies to reach out globally in the post-pandemic era.
Here in Macao, the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) celebrated 25 years of tradition, innovation, and vision. Committed to making a positive impact in the local community, we are proud of our solidarity programs like the prison outreach education, designed to help incarcerated individuals for a better future social reintegration. Successfully, USJ also held the first Macao-wide English writing and recital contest that attracted over 1,000 original poetries from all local students. This event aims to promote English language literacy and foster creativity among the local youth through poetry.
Pope Francis, during this year’s World Social Day of Communication, affirmed: “listening is decisive in the grammar of communication and is a condition for genuine dialogue.” The Pope noted that listening is undergoing new developments, especially due to new forms of communication. These trends demonstrate that “listening is still essential in human communication,” quoted the Vatican News.
More than hearing, “listening with the ear of the heart,” foundational base of the relationship between God and humanity, us as partners in dialogue.
We are called in turn to “tune in, to be willing to listen,” because “listening is a dimension of love”, and “is the first indispensable ingredient of dialogue and good communication”, allowing people to exercise “the art of discernment”, the ability “to orient ourselves in a symphony of voices”, explained Pope Francis.
We would like to compare our ASEACCU communion to a choir in unity, plurality, and variety of voices, polyphony in relation to the harmony of the whole. Inclusive, in a communion that precedes and includes all of us, manifesting the harmony of the whole.
José Manuel Simões
ASEACCU Executive Editor, Associate Professor, Communication and Media Department Coordinator at USJ Macao
ASEACCU Activities & Events
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COVID-19 has left long-term scars on the Southeast Asian region’s economy, politics, and public health, the impacts of which can last well into the recovery in years to come. Going forward, in the short-run, as Southeast Asian countries jumpstart their economic recovery much will depend on the speed of vaccination, the possible emergence of new COVID variants, as well as any major slowdown in the momentum of global and regional growth. In the long-run, Southeast Asian governments are still facing deep-rooted challenges which could cause a U-turn in the uneven path of development. Significant efforts are still needed to address poverty, environmental degradation, security, education, and social welfare. This conference will address these short-term and long-term challenges as policy-makers prepare to shift gears to accelerate structural transformation of regional economic activities.
This is a must-attend event for all Southeast Asian specialists in political economy, security, civil society, and culture to discuss and exchange views in their fields of expertise. The conference continues to adopt an inclusive and multidisciplinary approach to examine the new forces that continue to shape both regional and international relations in Southeast Asia.
The organizers encourage submissions of panel proposals or individual presentations on the following sub-themes:
ASEAN’s responses to the Pandemic: Successes and Failures
Democracy in Southeast Asia: Forward or backward?
ASEAN economic, cultural and security challenges
Women and Children in Public Health Policies
Environment Studies – Policies and Environment Sustainability
Language policies and Educational Issues
China – US Rivalry: Impact of Southeast Asia
Migrant Workers: Coping with the Pandemic
Post COVID-19 Taiwan: Relations with ASEAN
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2022 Notification of accepted papers: June 13, 2022 Official registration period: July 1- August 31, 2022 Deadline for full paper submissions: August 31, 2022 Official registration of General Participants: July 1 - Sep. 30, 2022 Conference Dates: October 20-22, 2022 Conference Venue: Wenzao Ursuline University (WZU), Kaohsiung, Taiwan Organizer: Department of Southeast Asian Studies, WZU
Other conference inquiries should be submitted to: Coordinator Mr. Kai Otto Chang: seas@mail.wzu.edu.tw
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Registration: Free.
No late abstract or full paper will be accepted after the deadline. Online system will be closed.
All presenters and participants should cover their own airfare to Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Complementary meals will be provided during the conference.
A complementary half-day Kaohsiung tour will be an option. Adjust according to the epidemic situation.
One hundred thirty participants from ASEACCU member institutions in Japan, Indonesia, Macao, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines attended the two-day leadership training webinar workshop.
Aptly-themed Effective Leadership: HEIs in the 21st Century, the leadership training webinar workshop tackled significant topics such as Leadership Mindset, Coaching a Champion Team, Emerging Leadership During Difficult Times, Leading Change, Ethical Leadership, and Strategic and Culture-Based Leadership.
The speakers include the CEO of OnPoint Consulting Ltd., Co., Mr Ryan Christian Mercado, MS; Ms. Ken Lapuz, MBA; Mr. Earl Borgoña, CPA, MBA, LLB; Ms. Cherry Maey Perillio, MPA, MBA; Engr. Marvin Garbin; and Dr. Chikhang Wu.
During the workshop sessions, the speakers gave the participants the opportunity to share their experience as leaders, the challenges they have encountered, the many facets of leadership, the choices they have to make in critical situations, and the various lessons they have learned as leaders of higher educational institutions.
The webinar workshop on Effective Leadership is just one in a series of leadership training webinar workshops the ASEACCU will hold in the years to come. Its aim is to present different leadership styles as well as make modern-day leaders apply humanistic methods to achieve a competitive organization, use appropriate tools and techniques in resolving people and organizational concerns, learn how to become strategic organizational leaders, appreciate the unique role played by leaders, value diversity among constituents, and demonstrate proper and ethical leadership practices.
COVID-19 has left long-term scars on the Southeast Asian region’s economy, politics, and public health, the impacts of which can last well into the recovery in years to come. Going forward, in the short-run, as Southeast Asian countries jumpstart their economic recovery much will depend on the speed of vaccination, the possible emergence of new COVID variants, as well as any major slowdown in the momentum of global and regional growth. In the long-run, Southeast Asian governments are still facing deep-rooted challenges which could cause a U-turn in the uneven path of development. Significant efforts are still needed to address poverty, environmental degradation, security, education, and social welfare. This conference will address these short-term and long-term challenges as policy-makers prepare to shift gears to accelerate structural transformation of regional economic activities.
This is a must-attend event for all Southeast Asian specialists in political economy, security, civil society, and culture to discuss and exchange views in their fields of expertise. The conference continues to adopt an inclusive and multidisciplinary approach to examine the new forces that continue to shape both regional and international relations in Southeast Asia.
The organizers encourage submissions of panel proposals or individual presentations on the following sub-themes:
ASEAN’s responses to the Pandemic: Successes and Failures
Democracy in Southeast Asia: Forward or backward?
ASEAN economic, cultural and security challenges
Women and Children in Public Health Policies
Environment Studies – Policies and Environment Sustainability
Language policies and Educational Issues
China – US Rivalry: Impact of Southeast Asia
Migrant Workers: Coping with the Pandemic
Post COVID-19 Taiwan: Relations with ASEAN
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission deadline: May 31, 2022 Notification of accepted papers: June 13, 2022 Official registration period: July 1- August 31, 2022 Deadline for full paper submissions: August 31, 2022 Official registration of General Participants: July 1 - Sep. 30, 2022 Conference Dates: October 20-22, 2022 Conference Venue: Wenzao Ursuline University (WZU), Kaohsiung, Taiwan Organizer: Department of Southeast Asian Studies, WZU
Other conference inquiries should be submitted to: Coordinator Mr. Kai Otto Chang: seas@mail.wzu.edu.tw
NOTES
Registration: Free.
No late abstract or full paper will be accepted after the deadline. Online system will be closed.
All presenters and participants should cover their own airfare to Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Complementary meals will be provided during the conference.
A complementary half-day Kaohsiung tour will be an option. Adjust according to the epidemic situation.
